The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma, is about to rob his first armored car.
Pocket Books
July 1995
464 pages ISBN: 0671891677 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
Written by Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry and his
writing partner, Diana Ossana, Pretty Boy Floyd
traces the wild career of this legendary American folk hero,
a young man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even
as he's robbing you at gunpoint. From the bank heists and
shootings that make him Public Enemy Number One to the women
who love him, from the glamour-hungry nation that worships
him to the G-men who track Charley down, Pretty Boy
Floyd is both a richly comic masterpiece and an American
tragedy about the price of fame and the corruption of innocence.